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Thread #112434   Message #2380811
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
04-Jul-08 - 05:52 AM
Thread Name: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Subject: RE: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
I misread the ':D', I thought it was a regular 'D', for Dave.

"So, yes, anti-semitic may have been changed to be specificaly anti- Jewish but it is still incorrect usage of the term. If people mean anti-Jewish then why not say anti-Jewish?"

It hasn't been changed, it was coined to mean anti-Jewish and that was how it was used. His name eludes me right now, but an Austrian Jewish scholar used it in the 1860s to criticise some virulently anti-Jewish scholar and 20 years later, Wilhelm Marr widely used the term to reffer solely to Jews.